Improvement in fluting and plaiting machines



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTHA E. WILSON AND ALBERT J. PERRY, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS SAID PERRYASSIGNOR TO SAID WILSON.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLUTING AND PLAITING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,331, dated June 24,1873 application filed April 4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MARTHA E. WILSON and ALBERT J. PERRY, of Galesburg,county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvementsin Fluting and Plaitin g Machines, of which the following is aspecification:

The nature of our invention relates to improvements in machinery forproducing, from suitable cloth, that class of articles known in thetrade as standard trimmings, and con sisting of various styles oftluting and plaiting; and the invention consists in the arrangement ofclamping-bars on a bed-plate or base, having their adjacent edgesrabbeted for the better security of the tinting-rods and plaitingslats,and one of them attached in such manner t0 the base that it may bereadily and easily swung out of the way for any desired purpose, bothclamping-bars being made adjustable to the base, for different kinds oftrimmings, by suitable spacing-slats and screwbolts. It further consistsin the arrangement I of an adjustable clamp for securing the rods or theplaiting-slats when the work is suspended at any time, all ashereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. 1 on the line as or; andFig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 31 3 Referring to the parts byletters, letter-A represents the base, consisting of a plain rectangularboard. Letters B B represent the I clamping-bars, with rabbets b b ontheir adjacent lower edges, and adjustably secured to the base A byscrew-bolts O O U C. The bar B is transversely slotted for the receptionof the bolt 0, as shown at c, Fig. l. D D are spacing-bars. Letters 6represent tinting-rods, and letters 9 plaiting-slats. H H H are jaws orprojections from, and at one end of, the bed-plate A. I is an adjustablebar, by means of a screw-bo1t,i, through a slot, j, therein, and has afoot turned up at its inner end.

In the drawings the fluting-rods and plaiting-slats are shown asarranged to produce the various styles of trimmings, such asboxplaiting, fluting, horizontal kilt-plaiting, and inclinedkilt-plaiting. In inclined kilt-plaiting, where it is desired to arrangethe plaits nearly perpendicular, and in any other style requiring deeperwork, any number of slats or spacing-bars D may be inserted to adjustthe distance of the clamping-bars B B from the base A. Y

In operation, the work is commenced at the left-hand end of Fig. 1, andthe slats g or rods 0 may, after being properly encircled, or partlyencircled, by the cloth L to be'operated upon, then be turned diagonallywith the base A, to be slipped into place with their ends resting in therabbets b b; or the bar B may be thrown back, as shown by the dottedlines at Fig. l, by simply loosening the screwbolt 0 and turning the baron the screw-bolt O as a pivot, and allow the fluting-rods andplaiting-bars to be arranged with the cloth. The adjustablejaw I may beused to hold the fluting-rods or plaiting-slats, or both, between it andthe stationaryjaws H, while the Work or cloth is ironed to set it, orwhen the work is suspended at any time. The bolt C may be swung intoposition shown by the dotted lines at Fig. l to remove the work, whichis done by placing the left hand upon the cloth and withdrawing thefluting-rods or quillingslats with the right hand. The advantagesagainst longitudinal displacement of the fluting-rods andplaiting-slats, by th ir ends resting in the rabbets b b, are tooevident to need on u meration.

I claim 1. The clamping-bars B B, having rabbeted edges 1) b, incombination with the screws (J G '0, base A, and fluting-rods e,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The clamping-bar B, provided with the slot 0, in combination with thescrew-bolts G 0, base A, and fiuting-rods c. substantially as and forthe purpose specified.

3. The clamping-jaw 1, adj ustably arranged to hold the tinting-rods e,in combination with the jaws H, base A, and bars B B, substantially asand for the purpose specified.

MARTHA E. WILSON. ALBERT J. PERRY. Witnesses:

J. J. TUNNICLIFF, M. H. BARRINGER.

